Record

LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)DA21/1/1/9
TitleSociety of Friends and the Free Church Council
Extent73 items
Date1885-1930
DescriptionPress cuttings, proofs, typescript draft articles, and letters mainly relating to the Society of Friends and the Free Church Council (James Rendel Harris was President of the Free Church Council from 1907-1908), with some records about Armenia and about James Hope Moulton.

/1 Cutting from The Friend, summarising lectures given by James Rendel Harris at the Scarborough Summer School, 1897
/2 Cuttings from The Friend including provisional programme for the Darlington Conference; report of an address by James Rendel Harris; report of a meeting of the Pentecostal League, 1896
/3 Map of Armenia, showing the route travelled by James Rendel Harris and Helen Harris, 1896
/4 Cuttings from The Friend describing James Rendel Harris and HBH's travels in Armenia, 1895-6
/5 Article by James Rendel Harris entitled 'The Society of Friends and Modern Thought', 1895
/6 Press cutting from newspaper of The Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, including a report of an address by James Rendel Harris, 1907
/7 Article by James Rendel Harris entitled 'St Paul as a Letter-Writer', March 1899
/8 Press cutting - report of an address given by James Rendel Harris to Birmingham Peace Society, 1905
/9 Cutting from the Western Daily Mercury - report of a lecture given by James Rendel Harris to the Society of Friends Lecture School, Plymouth, 1914
/10 Cutting from the British Weekly reporting on James Rendel Harris's address as Chair of the Free Church Council, 1907
/11 Press cutting - report of an address given to a meeting of the Society of Friends by James Rendel Harris, 1906
/12 Leaflet - essay by James Rendel Harris entitled 'The Nonconformist Conscience, and the Dean of St Paul's', nd
/13 Cutting from the Expository Times reporting on an address given by James Rendel Harris entitled 'Christ in Modern Life', Sep 1905
/14 Handwritten notes of an address given by Professor Richard Jones on the unveiling of James Rendel Harris's portrait at Haverford College, Philadelphia, nd
/15 Typescript draft of an article by James Rendel Harris entitled 'The New Text of the Kuran', commenting on an article by Alphonse Mingana, nd
/16 Letter to James Rendel Harris from J Edward Flower, enclosing an extract from the 'Occult Review' which supports James Rendel Harris's theory (in 'Eucharistic Origins') that Jesus travelled in the Far East, 1930
/17 Prospectus for a study course in Islam prepared for the Cairo Study Centre, 1921
/18 Press cutting from 'The Christian' - biography of James Rendel Harris, by E. H., 1916
/19-/20 Press cuttings - reporting that the ship the City of Birmingham has been torpedoed, 1916
/21 Cutting from The Friend, summarising a letter from James Rendel Harris, as President of the Free Church Council, entitled 'The Hague Conference - Practical Things to Work For', 1907
/22-/23 Press cuttings from the Daily News and the Standard, summarising a letter from James Rendel Harris written to the London Young Free Churchmen's League, 1907
/24 Press cutting from the Telegraph, reporting on James Rendel Harris's travels in the Near East, 1922
/25 Press cutting from the Home Messenger - article entitled 'The New President of the Free Church Council. A Personal Sketch of Prof J. Rendel Harris', by Herbert George Wood, 1907
/26 Press cutting from The Expository Times - biographical sketch of James Rendel Harris by Alexander Souter, 1920
/27 Press cutting from the Western Daily Mercury - report of a lecture given by James Rendel Harris entitled 'The Liturgy of the Skylark', 1914
/28 Press cutting from The British Weekly, reporting on James Rendel Harris's appointment as President of the Free Church Council, 1907
/29 Press cutting from The Friend, reporting on James Rendel Harris's resignation from his lectureship in Cambridge, 1903
/30 Press cutting from the Daily News, reporting on plans to set up a 'Friends Seminary' (Woodbrooke College), 1903
/31 Envelope labelled 'Rendel Harris Grave and Gay' Includes various poems and anecdotes describing James Rendel Harris, nd
/32 Press cutting from The Friend - letter from James Rendel Harris describing relief work in Armenia, 1896
/33 Honorary degree certificate awarded to James Rendel Harris by the University of Dublin, 1892
/34 Letter to James Rendel Harris from JW Thomas [Ootacamund, South India], 1920
/35 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Charles C Torrey [Professor of Semitic Languages, Yale University], 1919-1920
/36-/37 Letters to James Rendel Harris from JW Thomas, 1920
/38 Cutting from the Magazine of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of a tribute to James Hope Moulton by WF Howard [clergyman in Birmingham], 1917
/39 Report of the memorial service for Dr Moulton [Head of the Leys School, Cambridge], including the text of an address by James Rendel Harris, 1902
/40 Press cutting from the Methodist Times describing the Memorial Service held for Dr Moulton [father of James Hope Moulton], 1902
/41 Poem by James Hope Moulton entitled 'At the Classroom Door', 1917
/42 Press cutting - letter from James Rendel Harris reporting the death of James Hope Moulton, 1917
/43 Press cutting - appreciation of James Hope Moulton by Edward Ernest Kellett [literary critic and author, Senior English Master at Leys, Cambridge], 1918
/44 Typescript essay by James Rendel Harris entitled 'Jesus Returns to Speak Peace', nd
/45 Abstract of a paper by James Rendel Harris concerning twins, nd
/46-/47 Letters to James Rendel Harris from R McCormack [Liverpool], 1921
/48-/53 Proofs of articles by James Rendel Harris:
/48 'The Sinless High Priest', nd;
/49 'Christian Ministry', nd;
/50 'On the Alternative Ending of St Mark's Gospel', nd
/51 'On an Obscure Quotation in the First Epistle of Clement', 1910
/52 'St Luke's Version of the Death of Judas', 1914
/53 'Pindar and St Paul', post 1921
/54 Review, by James Rendel Harris, of 'John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers,' by Walter H Burgess, 1920
/55 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Erwin Preuschen [German Biblical scholar], German, 1913
/57 Letter to James Rendel Harris from Edward Grubb [Editor and Publisher of the British Friend], enclosing /56 proof of an article by James Rendel Harris entitled 'Does Luke mention himself by name in his writings?' 1913
/58 Proof of an article by James Rendel Harris entitled 'Some Diatesseron Readings from Sinai', 1923
/59 Letter to James Rendel Harris from George Milligan [Clerk of the Senate of the University of Glasgow], 1914, enclosing /60 letter from University of Glasgow re Honorary Degree, 1914
/61 Typescript report of a sermon preached by James Rendel Harris at the opening of Kingswood Memorial Church, Bristol, nd
/62 Typescript of a sermon by James Rendel Harris entitled 'We Love', nd
/63 Press cutting from the Holborn Review - article by James Rendel Harris entitled 'A New Saint Theresa', 1925
/64 Proof of an article by James Rendel Harris entitled 'A Lacuna in the Text of the Acts of the Apostles', nd
/65 Article, probably by James Rendel Harris, concerning myths about bees, nd
/66 Article, probably by James Rendel Harris, entitled 'Jesus Christ and the Four Penitents', nd
/67 Press cutting from The Christian World Pulpit of a sermon by H Hensley Henson [Canon of Westminster] entitled 'Apostolic Succession', 1901
/68 Circular letter from James Rendel Harris to Ministers in the Free Church in the County of Cambridge re Hensley Henson's sermon, 1902
/69 Letter to James Rendel Harris from an unknown author [Clare College, Cambridge], nd
/70 and /71 Circular letter from James Rendel Harris to Nonconformists in Cambridge area asking them to campaign against the Education Bill, 1902
/72 Press cutting from 'The Sun', Baltimore publishing a letter from DC Gilman [President of the Johns Hopkins University] concerning James Rendel Harris's resignation from the University because of his opposition to vivisection, 1885
/73 Issue of The Christian Commonwealth, including articles regarding James Rendel Harris's appointment as Chair of the Free Church Council, 1907
ArrangementOriginal order
LanguageGerman
Access StatusOpen
Physical DescriptionOriginally listed as Lot 8a /18 press cutting - edges are fragile; /71 is a duplicate of /70; /73 is folded

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